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APPLICABLE FOR APRIL 2022 EXAMINATION
International Finance
1. The changing global
economic environment and a number of market related factors cause the exchange
rates to fluctuate constantly. This poses a challenge to the MNCs operations in
multiple countries in terms of foreign exchange risk. Describe what is your understanding
of forex risk. How can you classify the different forex risks? Give an example
for each classification of the forex risk (10 Marks)
2. Suppose that you are a
manufacturer of textiles and you are planning to expand your business by
capturing the export markets in Europe and African regions. In terms of operational
issues relating to the carriage and delivery of goods, you are ought to be
aware of various trade practices followed in different countries. In this
regard, explain various INCOTERMS published by International Chamber of
Commerce, that make it easier for a common interpretation. (10 Marks)
3. A trader collects the below
information to devise his forex management strategy during the next year:
Spot Rate of USD: INR 74.40
Interest rates in USA: 2.5%
Interest rates in India: 6.5%
a. What is Interest Rate
Parity Theory? What will be the expected exchange rate in the above case, if
the interest rate parity theory is assumed to hold good. Also calculate the
forward premium or discount. (5 Marks)
b. What is covered interest
arbitrage? If there is a one-year forward contract available at INR 75.60, is
there a CIA possible, and if yes, write the steps to earn arbitrage profit (use
an equivalent amount of INR 1000000) (5 Marks)
Marketing
Research
1. Take the mobile handset
category for Android phones in India in the price range of Rs. 15000 to Rs.
20000. Choose a leading brand in the category and analyse its various
attributes of brand equity. You can use your experience and public domain data
to analyse the same. (10 Marks)
2. A full-service airline
company, operating in India for the last 10 years has improved their overall
service quality. You have been commissioned the task of designing a
questionnaire which measures passenger satisfaction towards the preflight,
inflight & post-flight experience. They also want the demographic details
of customers for profiling. Use appropriate statements and the right scale
while developing the questionnaire so that overall satisfaction towards the
airline can be measured. (10 Marks)
3. An Indian company in the
electronic safes and security equipments industry has a safety locker which can
be fitted inside a cupboard or cabinets. The safety locker can be locked with a
password. If anyone tampers with the locker, it sends an sms to registered
numbers and blow an alarm. Indian consumers are generally used to cupboards or
bank lockers. The password protection and the alarm features make the product
very superior and once it is fixed to a cabinet or a wall, it can’t be removed
without a password. Without password the blaring alarms will go off. The company
has a very good advertising campaign developed by an agency which highlights
the sms & alarm feature in in a mix of humour and fear setting. The target
audience of the company are Indian households with annual income above 8 lakhs.
The company wants maximum Indian households to watch the ad.
a. What media mix will you
suggest for the campaign? (5 Marks)
b. How will you measure the ad
effectiveness after the first 3 months? (5 Marks)
Integrated
Marketing Communication
1. Cream and Sauces is an
online bakery store. For past one year of its establishment, the company is not
able to make sales. The company has ow planned to revamp its digital marketing
strategies. Suggest the Search Engine Marketing tactics that company can apply to
enhance the organic search results. (10 Marks)
2. Ferry Travelers Ltd., a
taxi company approaches your Ad agency to develop a campaign on the green
practices adopted by the company. As an ad agency develop a creative brief for
this account. (10 Marks
3. Case Study
Modern Appliances a small
company manufacturing household appliance like mixer grinder, toasters, air
conditioners, heaters, electric irons, hair dryers etc. The firm had to compete
with established brands like Bajaj, Philips, LG etc. These brands had good features
and were highly priced. The average middle class Indian consumer is very conscious
and would negotiate on prices and get the best value for money. If the consumer
has faith in the local branded products and is saving 15 to 20% on the product
they would opt for the local branded products. The advantage that the modern
appliances had was low cost of production and low distribution cost. This gave
the modern appliances a number of options. (1) With the saving of cost of
production, it could give better discount to dealers and get them interested in
pursuing its products. The company could use the push strategy for sales. (2)
It could aim their advertising on the consumer and thereby make use of the pull
strategy. (3) The company could reduce its prices and adopt the penetration
strategy. (4) It could also use other forms of advertising on promotion mix to
sell its products.
a. Discuss the case with
reference to the Keller’s CBBE Model. (5 Marks)
b. Suggest what advertising
strategy should the company adopt. Justify your answer? (5 Marks)
Corporate
Finance
1. The capital structure of
ABC Pvt. Ltd is as follows:
Equity share capital (each
share of Rs. 10) = Rs. 10,00,000
Debentures with a coupon rate
of 9.5% = Rs. 8,00,000
Reserves and surplus = Rs.
7,00,000
Revenue from the business
activities for the company is Rs. 1.50 crores. Its variable cost is 8% of the
revenue, fixed operating cost is Rs. 48 lakhs and the company pays income tax
at a rate of 25%.
a. Calculate financial
leverage, operating leverage and combined leverage for the company.
b. Determine the likely level
of EBIT for EPS of (i) Rs. 20, (ii) Rs. 30, and (iii) Rs. 45
(10 Marks)
2. The equity shares of a
publicly traded company are priced at Rs. 450 with P/E (Price to Earnings)
ratio of 15. The announces a dividend of Rs. 9 per shares. The shareholders of
the company expect the dividend to grow at a rate of 6% every year, and the
cost of equity for the company is 15%. According to the dividend relevance
approach suggested by Walter and Gordon, what would be the impact of dividend
announcement on the market price of the shares of the company if required rate
of return for investors is (i) 12%, (ii) 15% and (iii) 18%. (10 Marks)
3. A manufacturing company
forecast that it is likely to sell 6,00,000 units for the year 2021. The
processing cost of an order is Rs. 150 and the carrying cost per unit of
inventory is Rs. 12. The lead time of an order is 8 days.
a. What would be the economic
order quantity (EOQ) and re-order point assuming 300 days in a year. (5 Marks)
b. The company implements
business process reengineering which results in to reduction of 20% in cost of
an order, 10% in carrying cost per unit of inventory and 25% in lead time of an
order. What would be the new EOQ and re-order point. (5 Marks)
Cloud
Computing
1. You are invited by the
Government of Kazakhstan to advise on deployment of cloud for
Government-to-Citizens (G2C) services. The Government is very keen to reduce
the total cost of ownership and increase scalability of its e-governance
infrastructure. As such, it is evaluating the use of cloud and the right choice
for the deployment model. You have been asked to provide a brief report
explaining pros and cons of each cloud deployment model for e-governance
systems in Kazakhstan. (10 Marks)
2. Academy Edutech is a
startup being incubated at IIT Delhi. It offers K12 e-Tutoring via cloud. Being
a startup, it is unable to afford its own data center and is considering
commercially available technology platforms for cloud computing. Specifically,
it is evaluating (a) the Cloud Deployment Model and (b) Cloud Service Provider.
You are invited to provide a comparison of these choices and recommend the most
suitable combination for them. You may get more details by visiting the web
site of CSP firms or you can make your own assumptions. (10 Marks)
3. The Top Management of
Chettinad Spices is meeting to discuss their plan for a New CRM Solution. Both
the COO, Mr. Senthil and the VP of Sales, Mr. Menon are of the strong opinion
that the company should implement a Custom On-Premise CRM solution to be
developed by the company’s regular IT Partner. On the other hand, both, Mr
Naidu, the CIO and Ms Bajwa, CFO are keen to move to a cloud Cloud-based SaaS
CRM solution. The debate is getting heated as Ms Bajwa also recalled past IT
system implementation failures.
a. What arguments can Mr.
Senthil make in favor of in-house CRM implementation? (5 Marks)
b. What arguments can Mr Naidu
make in favor of a Cloud-based SaaS CRM solution? (5 Marks)
Fundamentals
of Big Data & Business Analytics
1. On the path towards
industrial and social progress Tata Power-DDL has always been a front runner in
introducing reformative solutions such as Smart Grid Operations, Automatic Meter
Reading, etc. to the power segment in North & North-West Delhi. Among other
challenges, revenue leakage and power theft were causing a roadblock in Tata
Power-DDL's goal to optimize the power supply for consumers at reduced tariffs.
By digitalizing the power
distribution systems, Tata Power - DDL opened the doorway to a vast amount of
information that was heterogenous and unstructured. With an aim to enhance
decision-making and optimize entire utility ecosystem, Tata Power-DDL’s outlook
was to employ advanced digital technology like Big Data analytics.
Tata Power-DDL partnered with
Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic to leverage their IT X OT expertise for social
enhancement. Collaborating with Tata Power-DDL, Hitachi designed a holistic
blueprint for the implementation of end-to-end advanced data analysis
solutions; deploying world-class technologies to streamline data ingestion from
diverse platforms, systematize scheduling of data and execute data engineering
on big data along with swift advanced analytics.
By creating an advanced and
reliable system architecture for big data analytics using IT X OT, Hitachi
provided Tata Power-DDL with an operational advantage by focusing on:
IT integration objectives
Solution modifications
Speedy execution by using
efficient operation technology and result optimization
Power Operation Technology
Thus, improving operational
efficiency and accelerating the delivery of true value to the society by
curbing power losses and reducing tariffs for consumers.
a. In this case, how Big data
analytics will enable prevention of revenue leakage in power sector. Which
tools can be leveraged for data ingestion, scheduling as well as final operationalization
of analytics?
b. How is distributed
computing different from parallel computing? Use this context to explain the
difference.
c. Which analytics
methodologies can be used to analyse the business problems mentioned in the
case? Which business metrics will be useful to track the possible fallacy in
meter reading?
(10 Marks)
2. State 3 use-cases of
business analytics within the banking industry, highlighting usage of
descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Give an example of how
mobile analytics is relevant for the industry and the resultant impact vs. the
traditional banking systems.
(10 Marks)
3.a. Explain how prescriptive
analytics has increasingly been adopted along with big data in the companies.
You can also mention the relevant stakeholders in the business who are needed
to make this a success. (5 Marks)
3.b. Mention 2 business
examples of prescriptive analytics which are fueled by the Big data and Mobile
Analytics revolution with the necessary context and methodology. (5 Marks)
IT
Infrastructure Management
1. Select any three companies
in different industries such as banking, retail store, airlines or package
delivery that you do business with? How optimal IT Infrastructure in each
company use to engage customer, keep the customer informed or create a unique customer
experience? (10 Marks)
2. For a hypothetical
organization of selected industry suggest what all optimal IT Infrastructure is
required for the rapid growth of the organization. Discussion should contain
topics related to server farms, cloud computing, green computing and
virtualization along with following components of IT Infrastructure Ecosystem.
Propose a suitable IT Infrastructure: (10 Marks)
3.a. In general hotel industry
is not regarded as the most high-tech industry, and many hotels companies only
cautiously adopt IT Infrastructure and new technologies. As for many guests,
the quality of a hotel stay is in the end determined by whether or not they
have some chocolates on their pillow at night and whether they get good night’s
sleep and a good breakfast. For Modern, the hotel that defined 5000 instances
in which a service encounter can lead to guest dissatisfaction, making the
guests’ stay as enjoyable as possible is the most important goal. Offering
technological advantages such as self- service check-in kiosks would not be
considered appropriate for luxury hotels of this class. On the other hand,
tasks that happen “behind the scenes” offer a host of opportunities to use
information technologies. One of these applications is Modern’s customer
relationship database. Containing records more than 2.5 million guests, this
system is designed to store even the most minute guest preference, so that the
guest’s next stay can be made even more enjoyable. In addition to information
about guest’s favorite newspaper, or preference of room or pillow, even
information overheard in a guest’s casual conversation with waiter is entered
into database, so a guest who mentions that She/he likes a certain kind of
flower might find a vase with bouquet of these on her/his table the next time
she/he visits a Modern.
Question. What are the various
components of IT infrastructure ecosystem used in the above caselet for
achieving rapid growth in the selected industry? How cloud computing will be
helpful in the industry discussed in the above caselet? How asset management is
done in such kind of industry? (5 Marks)
3.b. Green computing is a
practice of using computing devices so that they can be used efficiently and
without causing harm to human beings and environment. The purpose of promoting
green computing is to reduce the consumption of energy and to reduce carbon
emission (CO2 emission). Suggest few actionable points/ drivers for achieving
green data centres and servers. List down few features of green data centres
and servers. What are various approaches used for green computing? Explain with
the help of real life example. (5 Marks)
Commercial
Banking System & Role of RBI
1. One of the important
mandate of RBI is prudent management of monetary policy, curbing inflation and
checking unemployment in economy. Explain how RBI achieves these diverse
parameters by use of different tools available with it. (10 Marks)
2. Credit appraisal is a
critical analytical tool of bank. Largely the profitability of bank hinges on
this tool. Any weakness on this front is reflected on the profitability of
banks and it also results in accumulation of stressed assets. BASEL-II has
given strong recommendations to check this menace. Elaborate in details the
important recommendations of this committee. (10 Marks)
3. Risk mitigation is one of
the main function/concern of bank in volatile economy. In course of business
banks face different types of risks which may vary from one bank to another.
a. Which are the major risks
banks are exposed to and how they mitigate it? (5 Marks)
b. Suppose the regulator asks
one of the losses making Bank XYZ to close a few branches to reduce cost
thereby make the bank more sustainable/profitable. But XYZ Bank refuses to
close its few branches, citing some risk/s involved in the process. What are the
risks XYZ Bank perceives if it closes a few branches? (5 Marks)
Marketing
of Financial Services
1. Develop a Service Marketing
Mix (using 8 Ps) for an Asset Management Company (Mutual Fund) of your choice.
(10 Marks)
2. Your client had avoided
investing in equities for his long term goals. He found equity investments too
risky and did not understand when to time his entry and exit in the market.
Explain some investment techniques that help negating the biases involved in
investing. (10 Marks)
3. You are a Financial
Planner. Your client Amit Advani aged 37 years and works with a Pharma company
earning Rs 18 lakhs per year. His wife Deepti, aged 34 years, is a homemaker.
They have one son Nilesh aged 7 years. The couple requires your help to make
some financial decisions. (You can make any assumptions to further build up
your case.)
a. Amit wants to buy a Pure
Risk Life Insurance cover of Rs 2 crore. He is confused whether he should buy a
ULIP, Endowment or a Term Plan. Recommend the product best suited for his
requirement. (5 Marks)
b. Amit and Deepti want your
help to invest for Nilesh’s higher education which they estimate would be
required after 14 years. (5 Marks)
Retail
Banking
1. Retail Banking is an
important arm of banking for building and growing its assets side. What does
this mean and what are Banks doing towards growing its assets side? Name any 4
asset side products that Banks provide and explain their characteristics in
terms of product nature, its classification & cost benefits for Banks (10
Marks)
2. As Retail Banking provides
various types of products and services to its customers, multiple types of
‘Banker–Customer’ relationships emerge. Name any 4 types of Banker-Customer
relationship and explain the fundamentals of the nature of the applicable legal
relationship (10 Marks)
3. “Dynamic Bank Limited” is a
well-established new generation bank started in India 35 years ago. As of
today, it has over 800 branches across the country with over 25 branches in
each of the metro cities (Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta and Chennai). It has about
10,000 full time staff across its branches and administrative offices. In the
last 5 years, its personnel costs, occupancy costs and operational costs have
been rising and consequently its profits were also declining.
a. Analyze the existing
situation and identify potential areas that need to be addressed to bring the
bank to growth and profitability (5 Marks)
b. Identify steps and measures
that can potentially be deployed to shift product and service delivery to low
cost operating models to enhance bank’s profitability (5 Marks)
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